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Intro
This is a blog about soccer. Yay!
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Maps
Number of players by country for three leagues – La Liga, Premier, and Bundesliga.
La Liga
# A tibble: 6 × 3
full_country_name num_players geom
<chr> <int> <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>
1 Albania 1 (((20.06396 42.54727, 20.10352 42.52466, 20.185…
2 Algeria 4 (((8.576563 36.93721, 8.597656 36.88388, 8.6012…
3 Argentina 33 (((-64.54916 -54.71621, -64.43882 -54.73936, -6…
4 Belgium 5 (((5.993945 50.75044, 6.005957 50.73223, 6.1194…
5 Brazil 18 (((-48.48589 -27.76699, -48.55459 -27.81221, -4…
6 Cameroon 1 (((15.48008 7.523779, 15.3791 7.358154, 15.2459…
From this map, we can observe that many players in this league originally come from Spain. This is because La Liga is a Spanish league.
Premier League
# A tibble: 6 × 3
full_country_name num_players geom
<chr> <int> <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>
1 Algeria 3 (((8.576563 36.93721, 8.597656 36.88388, 8.6012…
2 Argentina 16 (((-64.54916 -54.71621, -64.43882 -54.73936, -6…
3 Armenia 2 (((45.55235 40.61607, 45.51435 40.59956, 45.478…
4 Australia 3 (((123.5945 -12.42568, 123.5952 -12.43594, 123.…
5 Austria 5 (((16.95312 48.59883, 16.94883 48.58858, 16.943…
6 Belgium 21 (((5.993945 50.75044, 6.005957 50.73223, 6.1194…
From this map, we can observe that many players in this league originally come from England. This can be explained by the fact that Premier league is an English league, so many players are English.
Bundesliga
# A tibble: 6 × 3
full_country_name num_players geom
<chr> <int> <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>
1 Albania 1 (((20.06396 42.54727, 20.10352 42.52466, 20.185…
2 Algeria 2 (((8.576563 36.93721, 8.597656 36.88388, 8.6012…
3 Argentina 4 (((-64.54916 -54.71621, -64.43882 -54.73936, -6…
4 Australia 1 (((123.5945 -12.42568, 123.5952 -12.43594, 123.…
5 Austria 19 (((16.95312 48.59883, 16.94883 48.58858, 16.943…
6 Belgium 5 (((5.993945 50.75044, 6.005957 50.73223, 6.1194…
From this map, we can observe that many players in this league originally come from Germany. This is because Bundesliga league is a German league.

Networks
Here are networks displaying the goals scored. The arrows point to the away team.
La Liga

Premier

Bundesliga

Bundesliga - Bayern Munich

Premier - Manchester

La Liga - Real Madrid

First, we have network connections for three big leagues in Europe: Bundesliga (Germany), La Liga (Spain), and the Premier League (England). We made network connections exploring how teams in these leagues have scored on each other. Teams typically play each other twice in the regular season, one game at each team’s field. Therefore, the arrows are colored by the home team’s goals. For example, the arrow going from Manchester City to Arsenal is the amount of goals Manchester City scored when the game was at the Etihad Stadium (Manchester City’s home field). The arrow going from Arsenal to Manchester City is the amount of goals Arsenal scored on Manchester City when the game was at the Emirates Stadium (Arsenal’s home field).
Since these network connections are a bit busy, we decided to create separate connections for the teams that ended in first in each league at the end of the 2021/22 season. These teams are Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, and Manchester City. The arrows represent the same events as mentioned above.
Looking at the network connections for the teams that ended in first, the colors of the arrows show that these teams scored lots of goals on their opponents when they played at home. When they were away, they did not concede many goals.